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Onslow Street

3 council reports at 2 addresses on Onslow Street, Merivale, on record since December 2022.

3 reports2 addresses3 days reported onfrom the air, then82 documents carry the name

Where it runs

11E Onslow Street, 2 reports16B Onslow Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Onslow Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Merivale.

From the air, then

Onslow Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Onslow Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Onslow Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Onslow Street, 82 in total; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

As it was reported

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Onslow Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Onslow Street?

3 reports at 2 addresses, most often trees & parks (2), rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Onslow Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 3 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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